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While at Carmarthan Records Office I found a book on the lost big houses of Wales. I only had time to flick through but I found a discription of the following residence in north Wales purchased by Northampton County Council for use as a mental hospital. The house was demolished & a purpose built hospital was constructed on the site. This has either closed in recent years or is in the process of being closed.
Descrition from http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm#Bryn-y-Neuadd
A house, built about 1667, was demolished in 1858 and rebuilt in 1858. St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton owned the house from about 1900 to the early nineteen sixties, and provided care for middle class residents with mental health problems. The house was demolished in August 1967 and the site used to construct the last National Health Service mental handicap hospital to be built - (see 1971 change of policy). It opened in 1971. People were moved into the hospital from Oakwood Park, near Conway, and Garth Anghard near Dolgellau. Bryn-y-Neuadd has villa style accommodation in wooded grounds. There were 233 patients on 31.12.1971, and it carried on growing. But resettlement from the hospital began almost as soon as it opened, as, in the 1970s, adults with low dependency moved into the community. There were 350 beds on 31.12.1977. By the mid 1980s all children, except one, were found successful placements in the community. But on 30.9.1989 there were still 208 people living there long-term. 102 still lived there in January 2001. They came, originally, from a wide area: Ynys Mon, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham will all be involved in finding them new homes by 2005/2006.
If anyone has any more info please chip in here.
Descrition from http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm#Bryn-y-Neuadd
A house, built about 1667, was demolished in 1858 and rebuilt in 1858. St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton owned the house from about 1900 to the early nineteen sixties, and provided care for middle class residents with mental health problems. The house was demolished in August 1967 and the site used to construct the last National Health Service mental handicap hospital to be built - (see 1971 change of policy). It opened in 1971. People were moved into the hospital from Oakwood Park, near Conway, and Garth Anghard near Dolgellau. Bryn-y-Neuadd has villa style accommodation in wooded grounds. There were 233 patients on 31.12.1971, and it carried on growing. But resettlement from the hospital began almost as soon as it opened, as, in the 1970s, adults with low dependency moved into the community. There were 350 beds on 31.12.1977. By the mid 1980s all children, except one, were found successful placements in the community. But on 30.9.1989 there were still 208 people living there long-term. 102 still lived there in January 2001. They came, originally, from a wide area: Ynys Mon, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham will all be involved in finding them new homes by 2005/2006.
If anyone has any more info please chip in here.
